Fact-Checking Arianna Huffington: Glass Houses And Balloon Boys

"We'd like to have more biopsies and fewer autopsies," Arianna
Huffington said Tuesday night during a Q&A sponsored by
Bloomberg Businessweek at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. The
Huffington Post founder was on one of her favorite
riffs, lashing "the media" for getting so distracted by
flash-in-the-pan controversies that it fails to notice huge
developments -- like the destabilizing of the financial system --
until it's too late.

Huffington was, in fact, quoting herself, as she often does, in
this case recycling a line from her new book, "Third
World America," where she writes: